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Show IS THERE A CHANCE FOB MEN IH VETERINARY SURGERY? In tho current Issuo of Farm and FIrusldo nn expert In tho Llvo Sfotk and Dairy dopartmont says that n young man has written to htm for advice as to whether vetcrlnnry surgery sur-gery is i deslroblo profession for a young man to enter today. To this Inquiry tho expert makes tho following fol-lowing roply: "Thoro aro at present a comparatively compara-tively small number of really expert votorlnary physicians. Tho majority major-ity of those who attempt It fall Into two classes: First, Ignorant fakers who do a thousand times inoro harm than good; nnd, second, men educated educat-ed for tho profession who nro still so unfamiliar with animals in a general gen-eral way that tlioy constantly full In their dlnguosises and, of courso, If tho diagnosis Is wrong tho treatment Is necossurlly so. "Tho pocunlary returns of tho profession pro-fession do not nverogo very high, but tho right kind of a man can mako a comforUiblo living out of It, If rightly situated. In a country locality It Is usually necessary to practtco It In connection with funning or somo other oth-er business, nt least at tho start. Tho best location Is a medium sized city." m |